Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1887-05-21
DAKOTA COMBINATIONS.

james tordBell mas Oeen appointed
auditor OF Moody county.
Work has begun on Sphinx county's
new court house at RedGsld.
The receipts of the Aberdeen land
office last week were $40 100.
w. j. Duncan has been arrested at
Bowdle charged with horse stealing.
Albert Tolley, OF Marion junction, had
a leg broken by a runaway team Thurs
day night.
The Watertown city council has
lo1atsd five miles of water main to be
laid Immediately.
The Watertown insurance company
Wednesday began doing business in
Indiana and Illinois.
Register Orr of Walworth county has
recorded l22 mortgages TO secure lien
upon crop for seed furnished.
|. Crops are looking well in Miner coun-
ty, but rain would not come amiss. Old
timers fear another dry season like last
year.
Steele will send o committee to per-
suade the Aberdeen, Bismarck & North.
western to cross the Northern Pacific at
that point.
A. A. Bangs, late postal clerk on the
Milwaukee road to Running Water, died
at Mitchell Thursday morning of CON
sumption.
Deputy q. 8. Marshal p. j. Lyons, oil
Steele, was married Thursday to Miss
Birdie Wadsworth, a wealthy %stocknsn's
daughter OF Medora.
The central Dakota association OF
Congregational churches was In session
in Wakonda Wednesday. Twenty. one
churches were represented.
The Aberdeen a~rtesian we'll has ceased
its mammoth operations and only runs
a small stream. 1t is thought that the
tube is ohoked at the bottom.
Anew addition has been plated to
Sioux Falls. 1t comprises thirty acres
OF the Ledysrd property, lying just
north of the deaf mute school.
Bismarck has closed the contract with
the Aberdeen, Bismarck & Northwest
ern railroad. The road Is to be graded
to Bismarck before November LIST.
The Young Mems association OF How.
ard have formed o syndicate for the pur.
chase of Rev. A. B, Cases residence, ad.
Joining the Congregational church
grounds.
A hunter from the Turtle Mountain
oountry reports the discovery of an oil
well there. 1t appears from the account
that the we'll was ready made when the
hunter discovered it.
Colonel James III. Drake, of the Sioux
Falla polishing works, says that the ele-
CANT residence on Summit avenue, st.
Paul, which is being built at Sioux Falls
stone, is attracting unexpected attention.
III Moody county grain never looked
better at this season. Farmers have
been more prompt than usual in per.
forming the spring work and everything
bids fair for the best crops ever har.
vested.
Rev. W. B. Afleck, now of New York
city, writes to the NJ. e. church people
of Kimball that he has started them {
600 pound bell for their church. Thi!
is a gift from a christian lady Of New
York city.
l Tie Pembina county commissioners
after examining the records, claim tina
Auditor Bird has drawn $1,000 NOR
than His salary. Bird states that he wa
/, allowed that sum for clerk hire. Sui
has been commenced for its recovery.
Pleuro-pnoumonla was reported q
! Darlington. DR.. Langdon, of Fargo
s deputy veterinary surgeon, found it wa
not-being only q minor affection. Ee
1 however, found three glandered horses
' which were killed and the bodies burn
ed.
The local option Law passed by til
last legislature, will be urged in Brow
county this fall. Thursday afternoo
the temperance workers held q meetin
! in the M. e. church and decided to ca
q o county convention OF the temperate
people, to be held in Aberdeen, June Isl
81 Sheriff johnson, of Grand Fork
county, has brought in from Northwoo
, Carl P, Baxter, q farmer. believed to b
hopelessly insane. He cleaned on
several houses in his neighborhood b
: frightening the inhabitants with hi
strange conduct. The insanity boar
will examine him.
Thursday afternoon the orner ston
!. of the projected Episcopal church
] Aberdeen wa laid with Masonic cere
monies. Bishop Hare was presen
Grand Master Blatt, OF Dakota, was MI
: sonlc master of ceremonies, assisted b
Hon. A. b. Boynton, Col. Plummer on
others. Bishop Hare and Dol. W. c
Plummer represented Aberdeen.
: Foster Howell, of Bismarck, is havin
: an interesting time with the sheriff
Kidder county, who is ~endeayoring [
:. arrest him and take him back to Kidd,
county for the alleged ofense Of stealth
eleven dollars from a telegraph opefl
tor. He was suspected because so ~
= pened to have eleven dollars in b
pocket, it being known that he was
resident of Bismarck,
The trustees o! the proposed Congr,